{"id":106361,"date":"2020-10-19T09:38:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T13:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=106361"},"modified":"2020-10-19T09:38:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T13:38:33","slug":"stolen-valor-article-new-yorker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=106361","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Valor Article: New Yorker"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The New Yorker just published an excellent article on Stolen Valor.<\/p>\n

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How to Spot a Military Impostor<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

On January 13th, Amber filled out a form on Military Phonies, one of a number of Web sites dedicated to exposing people who invent or inflate their military service. \u201cI am concerned that he may not have received [the medals] but is implying that he has,\u201d she wrote. \u201cMy father served 30 years in the Air Force and I have regard for servicemen. I just need help in finding out if he does indeed have these medals.\u201d<\/p>\n

That night, a representative from Military Phonies e-mailed Amber, saying that it usually took the group several weeks to put together a complete record, and pointing her to a list of Silver Star recipients compiled by a military historian named Doug Sterner. Foley was not on the list.<\/p>\n

Three weeks later, Military Phonies published the results of its investigation, concluding that Foley was indeed an Army veteran but that his career was much less \u00e9lite than he had claimed. There was no evidence that he was an Airborne Ranger or a sniper, that he had received a Purple Heart or a Silver Star, or that he had been wounded in combat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is much more there and a worthwhile read.\u00a0 Several members of this community were interviewed for the article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New Yorker just published an excellent article on Stolen Valor. How to Spot a Military … Stolen Valor Article: New Yorker<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":106362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[408,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stolen-valor","category-stolen-valor-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106363,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106361\/revisions\/106363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/106362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}